partypoker.net Premier League VII Heat 1 – Updates

We are live from Playground Poker for Heat 1 of the partypoker.net Premier League VII, the first time the league is played on Canadian soil. The action is well underway for this pre-recorded for television feature table.

Jeff Gross beats Dan Colman and scores 14 points as well as $28k.

The blinds are up to 20k/40k

Hand 181:  Jungleman out

Jungleman goes all in with J-4 and Colman calls with pocket jacks.

Flop is

Jungleman is eliminated for the evening. It is not a heads up between Colman and Gross.

Short break to chip up. Blinds are now 15k/30k +5k ante. We are playing 3 handed.

Hand 158: Jungleman doubles up

Jungleman

Gross

Cates all in and Gross calls.

Flop

Cates doubles up.

Hand 157: Gross Encounter

Colman

Gross

Gross goes all in from the SB and Colman calls.

Flop and Jeff Gross doubles up to be the new chip leader.

Players are back and the blinds are 10k/20k + 3k ante.

Players are on a short break after hand 127.

Hand 116: Jungleman swings back up

Mizzi

Jungleman

A series of checks and bets. The flop gives the Jungleman a full house, aces and 8’s.

Cates regains the chip lead with 697,000 chips.

Hand 110: Mizzi chips away at Jungleman

Mizzi

Jungleman

Both men play the flop. Sorel checks on the flop with pair of eights. An 8 on the turn and Cates bets, Mizzi raises. Cates folds and Mizzi takes the pot holding three of a kind.

After Hand 106 the blinds are up to 8k/16k with 3k antes.

Hand 99: Koon doubles up on Jungleman

Koon goes all in and the Jungleman calls.

Koon

Cates

Flop

Koon makes a full house to double up. He is still the short stack.

Hand 97 – J is for Jungleman

Jungleman

Koon

Junglaman raises to 25k, Koon reraises to 52k.

Junglement all in for 337k and Koon calls.

Flop  :

Jungleman connects trip jacks and becomes the new chipleader with 704,000 chips. Koon takes a beating and gets pushed down 77,000.

Hand 93: Colman finally plays a hand

Mizzi

Jungleman

Colman

A set of raises, and the flop is

Colman goes all in for 201k with a pair of jacks. Both other men stand down. Colman picks up some chips to revive himself.

Hand 87: Koon takes lead

Koon raises to 25k

Antonio raises to 63k

After a pause, Koon goes all in with pocket 4’s and forces Antonio out. Koon is the new chipleader but there is a virtual 3-way tie at the top as 3 players are within 2k chips of each other.

Hand 85: Sorel doubles on Antonio

Mizzi all in with for 115k. Antonio calls with .

Flop

Mizzi doubles up with pair of 4’s.
Blinds are going up after 4 levels and 84 hands to 6k/12k +2k ante.

Hand 75: Rasted

Rast all in with pocket 10’s. Esfandiari calls with J-Q off suit. The pot total is 174k.

Flop is

Brian Rast is eliminated as Antonio picked up a full house. Rast picks up 1 point in heat 1 of the premier league.

Hand 74: Rast All in but no takers.

Rast has played the patience game. He went all in with . He stole the antes and blinds and is back up to 88k in chips.

After 68 hands, Esfandiari, still in the lead has lost some chips. Rast is running on fumes.

The blinds are up to 4k/8k +2k ante.

Hand 56 – multiple hole pairs

Koon

Jungleman

Esfandiari

Flop

All players checked.  Turn comes    The pot is 55k

Koon bets 75k and Esfandiari folds followed by Jungleman. Koon steals the pot before players can reveal their pairs.

Hand 50 – Seiver out

Seiver all in call pre-flop for 136k. Gross calls.

Seiver

Gross

Flop

We have our first elimination of the night. Seiver gets no points for the remaining 3 heats. Gross, who has seen many pocket pairs this evening, is closer to the chip leader Antonio Esfandiari.

Hand 48 – KK Koon

Colman raises to 18k from the SB, and Koon needs 12k to call from the BB. Koon raises to 43k and Colman calls.

Koon

Colman

Flop

Koon bets and Colman folds giving him the pot.

Hand 43 – Big pot

Seiver raises from SB, Antonio bets.

Antonio

Seiver pocket Q’s

About 211k in the pot as Antonio bets 67k on the river after Seiver has checked.

Seiver has a long pause and calls. Antonio takes the monster pot with Seiver dropping in chips.

After 41 hands of play. Players are on their first break. Gross continues to lead Heat 1 with Mizzi on the short stack of the eight players. The blinds will be increased to 3k/6k +1k ante.

Gross wins a couple of back to back pots in hands 37 & 38 against Mizzi and Seiver to extend his chip lead.

Hand 33

Three players with pocket pairs with 5 players taking the flop with 50k in the pot. With Mizzi betting, 3 of the players folded and now it’s between Mizzi and Seiver. The flop is and on the turn. The pot total is 94k and Mizzi has checked. Seiver bets 65k and Mizzi to call. Clearly this is the largest pot of the night thus far with 159k. Mizzi folds and Seiver takes the monster pot with a pair of monsters.

With about 28 hands played, here is how the chips are stacked.

The blinds are midway at the 2k/4k level.

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